Second Life in Teaching and Learning

Schedule May-June 2011

Week starting May 2

Survey given to students
Preliminary information and discussion about SL - how to access, avatar development etc
Students to download SW and do SL orientation
Information about ITGS Island
All students to know how to get in, move around, re-model avatar and get to ITGS Island by end of week
A regular evening session established - to be maintained over the next 6 weeks - Tuesday 9pm

Week starting May 9

Area of Impact: Education - discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of using a virtual world as a learning community platform
Research exploration of current ideas and news to do with SL/virtual worlds and education
Student SL project started - to explore and set up 'training' for newcomers to ITGS Island and SL

Week starting May 16
Research

Tuesday session in SL - 9pm

Everyone to meet in the CISI HQ building on the roof
Students to be put into 2 teams - must stay with team, each will have a leader
Task 1: to explore shopping for free goods and acquiring more clothes
Task 2: to experiment with Machinima - take small clips of group events
Task 3: to find other interesting places to explore and teleport to - make sure landmarks are bookmarked
Meet back at CISI in last 10 min. and report back

Week starting May 23

Week starting May 30

Week starting June 6

Week starting June 13

School ends Friday June 17

SL Schedule